ICYM my latest at No Such Thing As Was: is Keith Richards’s “Thru and Thru” the last great Rolling Stones song?

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Baby, it’s just an open book Is Keith Richards's "Thru and Thru" the last great Rolling Stones song?

For my latest at No Such Thing As Was, I dive deep into Keith Richards's moody epic "Thru and Thru" from the Rolling Stones's Voodoo Lounge.

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ICYM my latest at No Such Thing As Was: Albert Ayler, John Coltrane, and the shapes that tributes can take.

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Albert Ayler 1 painting by Smith Jazz Art / Harold Smith Art

My latest at No Such Thing As Was: six months before John Coltrane died, Albert Ayler performed his tribute "For John Coltrane" at the Village Theatre in NYC, a staggering piece of avant-garde jazz that aimed for the infinite.

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Some handwritten conceptual art in my library copy of Valerie Wilmer’s As Serious As Your Life: The Story of the new Jazz.

Haha, love it! Glad to supply the bit. Well, thanks to DLR.

That was a great time!

absolutely

Two thirty to five thirty, a break for dinner, 7 o'clock to ten thirty. All in a day's work. Afterward, McCartney squired Jane Asher to the Cromwellian Club for a few drinks, as you do. 2/2

I don't feel that it's hardened into sufficient enough legend that on June 14, 1965 the Beatles, led by McCartney, recorded "I've Just Seen a Face," "I'm Down," and "Yesterday" (the string section added three days later). 1/2

A weekend of sublimity Elevator Repair Service's Gatz and the Hives onstage continue to set the standard

Elevator Repair Service's performance of Gatz and the Hives' ownership of the Salt Shed made my weekend. How was yours?

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Got my shot of Vitamin-H last night

All the notes seem to ring in my ear Listening to the Records' overshadowed second album, Crashes (1980)

I’ve got a bit on my plate, so I couldn't get to No Such Thing As Was this week. In lieu of a new post, or in case you missed it, here’s something I wrote about the Records' second, sadly overshadowed LP Crashes, released in 1980. See you again soon.

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This entire White Sox season is gonna be a series of Tungsten Arm O’Doyle headlines, isn’t it?

“Chase Meidroth and Munetaka Murakami went deep and Jordan Leasure pitched a scoreless inning as the White Sox fell to the Brewers 14-2.

What AI has wrought: when I open a student's essay to grade, I now think, "Please be poorly written..."

"This Miles Davis thing" Or, how Lester Bangs learned to love On the Corner

For my latest at No Such Thing As Was, I wrote a few thousand words about Miles Davis's On the Corner and how Lester Bangs wrestled with its greatness.

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ICYM my latest at No Such Thing As Was: Joe Jackson, the Beat, and end-of-the-century demands.

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It's 1979, okay? Revisiting a couple end-of-decade statements of purpose—and a Twenty-first century one

In today's No Such Thing As Was, I revisit two statements from the end of the century.

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ICYM my latest at No Such Thing As Was: I wrote about Margo Price's latest album and her rousing show at the Metro in Chicago. Plus: politics as personality.

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The way this world is going ain’t where I’m at Margo Price and her new band delivered in spades at the Metro in Chicago

In my latest No Such Thing As Was newsletter, I review Margo Price's terrific Hard Headed Woman and the equally strong show she and her new band played at The Metro in Chicago.

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C'mon you can do better than that! 😉

ICYM my latest at No Such Thing As Was: I wrote about multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee, his terrific memoir Straight Up, Without Wings, and a still-relevant question he asked a half century ago.

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Joe McPhee’s Nation Time is an inspiring message that ties in with Amiri Baraka’s It’s Nation Time LP as well as a recorded speech by Jesse Jackson - I wrote about this - in my book “Listen Whitey! Sounds of Black Power 1965-75” - thank you Joe @joebonomo.bsky.social for diving into this as well

Very cool!

What time is it? Joe McPhee's free jazz anthem "Nation Time" feels as relevant now as it it sounded far-out then

Inspired by Joe McPhee's memoir Straight Up, Without Wings: The Musical Flight of Joe McPhee, as told to Mike Faloon, I wrote about McPhee's 1971 free jazz anthem "Nation Time" for my latest at No Such Thing As Was. #WhatTimeIsIt

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"Basically, I feel fortunate to have realized what the goal is in life. There's no point in dying having gone through your life without knowing who you are, what you are, or what the purpose of life is. And that's all it is."

screenshot of a tv user guide, showing two channels under Tue 8PM: MSNOW - State of the union TCM East- Gaslight

Masterful Troll, TCM.

ICYM my latest at No Such Thing As Was, I wrote about Peter Holsapple, the dBs, and telling the truth in song.

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It's just the way I have to live Peter Holsapple and the dBs' "I Lie" still haunts down the years

In my latest at No Such Thing As Was: Peter Holsapple and the dB's' "I Lie," and how a song can tell us things we didn't know we knew.

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Monochrome America by Joe Bonomo — The Normal School I’m already apprehensive about driving over a body of water when Vega grabs my elbow and whispers to me that we’re riding around in a killer's car, it’s nineteen hundred seventy seven, whole country ...

For my latest at The Normal School: A Literary Magazine, I wrote a few thousand words about Springsteen and Suicide.

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